We study the class AvgBPP that consists of distributional problems which can be solved in average polynomial time (in terms of Levin's average-case complexity) by randomized algorithms with bounded error. We prove that there exists a distributional problem that is complete for AvgBPP under polynomial time samplable distributions. Since we use deterministic reductions, the existence of a deterministic algorithm with average polynomial running time for our problem would imply AvgP=AvgBPP. Note that, while it is easy to construct a promise problem that is complete for promise-BPP, it is unknown whether BPP contains complete languages. We also prove a time hierarchy theorem for AvgBPP (there are no known time hierarchy theorems for BPP). We compare average-case classes with their classical (worst-case) counterparts and show that the inclusions are proper.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 213-223 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Annals of Pure and Applied Logic |
Volume | 162 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
ID: 49786895